The Gräfenberg cure was not water alone. The diet and lifestyle program attached to the Priessnitz family water book of 1847 prescribed movement therapy and air and solar baths together with a spare diet built on cold-water drinking, milk and cold dishes, vegetables, fruit, and little or no meat (Rohde, 2007). This places the cure in the same family as the regimen cases of this archive: a whole ordering of living, held to restore health.

The claim is recorded as unreplicated. No controlled study isolated the contribution of the diet and regimen, and the program was promoted as part of an integrated cure whose effects were never measured against a control. The regimen is the part of the case that overlaps with measures later associated with health (exercise, open air, a moderate diet, and abstention from the harsh drugging of the period), which is why the case is atypical for the archive: the harm fell on the standard of evidence rather than on the body. That overlap does not convert testimonial promotion into demonstrated benefit for any specific condition.